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# novelWriter Changelog
## Version 2.1 Beta 1 [2023-07-30]
### Release Notes
This is a beta release of the next release version, and is intended for testing purposes. Please be
careful when using this version on live writing projects, and make sure you take frequent backups.
Please check the changelog for an overview of changes. The full release notes will be added to the
final release.
### Detailed Changelog
**Usability**
* When the main window is resized, the change in size is only applied to the editor and viewer. To
resize the project tree area, the slider needs to be moved. PR #1388.
* The default text font on MacOS is now Helvetica. Issue #1463. PR #1479.
* Backup files now contain the project name again. Issue #1476. PR #1484.
* The backup success dialog now displays the file size of the backup file. Issue #1453. PR #1484.
* New root folders in the Project Tree now appear next to the root folder of the item selected when
the request to make the root folder was made. Previously, it would appear at the bottom of the
Project Tree. Issue #1259. PR #1487.
**Features**
* A new Manuscript Build Tool has been added. The new tool allows for detailed handling of which
documents are included in a build, as well as a much better tool for formatting headers. It also
allows for saving multiple build presets. PRs #1389 and #1466. Issues #971, #1315 and #1448.
* ODT builds now have an accessible style for scene separators, and it is also possible to define
page size and margins from the new build tool. Issue #622. PR #1477.
* A proper light theme has been added. The default theme will usually default to light colours, but
in Qt6 it will not, so creating a proper light theme is needed. It also allows for some tweaking
of the colours. The contrast of the dark theme has been improved a bit as well, and default icon
theme is now selected based on the lightness of the background if a theme is not specified in the
theme definition file. Issues #1472 and #1473. PR #1475.
* Documents, folders and root folders can now be duplicated from the Project Tree, including all
child elements. The duplicated content is stored next to the source items, and can then be moved
to wherever the user wants a copy. Issue #1469. PR #1480.
* A set of new keyboard shortcuts have been added to make some types of navigation in the Project
Tree easier. Alt+Up and Alt+Down will move between sibling items in the tree, skipping child
items. Alt+Left will move to the parent of the selected item without triggering the collapse of
the node like the Left key does. Alt+Right does the reverse, and both expands the node and moves
to the first child in one click. Issue #1348. PRs #1488 and #1489.
**Packaging and Installation**
* Support for Python 3.7 is no longer maintained, but has not officially been dropped. It is
expected to be dropped for the final release of 2.1. PR #1452.
* The lxml package has been removed from the source code, dropping it as a dependency of
novelWriter. The standard Python xml library is used instead. The standard library is somewhat
limited, which is why it wasn't originally used, but when dropping support for Python 3.7, it is
now a better alternative. Issue #1257. PR #1452.
* The setup.py file has been removed. The custom packaging utilities in the old setup.py file are
now available in pkgutils.py instead. Issues #1437 and #1438. PR #1483.
**Code Improvements**
* All imports of modules are now direct imports instead of going via init files. All subfolder init
files have been reduced to empty files. PR #1262.
* The mocking of the main config file in the test suite has been rewritten to be easier to deal
with when writing tests. The new approach also removes the need to access the config instance via
an attribute in many classes, and is now instead accessed directly. This should give a tiny
performance boost. PR #1447.
* The building of manuscript documents from novelWriter source text is now handled by a core
builder class, thus separating it from any GUI module. Previously, this was baked into the build
tool. PR #1316.
* SVG icons have been optimised in terms of storage size and object complexity. PR #1456.
* The file names for the project meta data files have been simplified and references to legacy
formats removed. The wordlist has been converted to a JSON file, and the session log to a JSON
Lines file. All old files are renamed or converted on the fly when opening the project. PR #1464.
* The project item and tree classes have been modified to improve how items, and in particular,
orphaned items are handled. These are mostly internal changes that simplifies how items are
accessed in the source code. Issue #1481. PR #1482.
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## Version 2.0.7 [2023-04-16]
### Release Notes
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* Update Chinese translation. PR #1298.
* Update Norwegian, US English, German and Spanish translations. PR #1311.
**Other CHanges**
**Other Changes**
* An icon theme can now be loaded from the user's data folder alongside a custom user theme.
Issue #1297. PR #1299.